![[Alchemical scene showing two putti holding philosopher's stone containing image of Hermes, below which are a man and a woman kneeling before furnace where transmutation is to take place]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1702/01/01/alchemical-scene-showing-two-putti-holding-philosophers-stone-containing-image-640.jpg "[Alchemical scene showing two putti holding philosopher's stone containing image of Hermes, below which are a man and a woman kneeling before furnace where transmutation is to take place]")
![A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea; with ye adjacent countries; explaning [sic] what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland &c. also ye trade winds, and ye several tracts made by ye galeons and flota from place to place. According to ye newest and most exact observations,](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1715/01/01/a-map-of-the-west-indies-or-the-islands-of-america-in-the-north-sea-with-ye-1-640.jpg "A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea; with ye adjacent countries; explaning [sic] what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland &c. also ye trade winds, and ye several tracts made by ye galeons and flota from place to place. According to ye newest and most exact observations,")
![A view of ye great clock in St. Mark's place at Venice / [Can]aleti pinx ; Jos. Baudin, del. ; H. Fletcher [sculpsit].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1715/01/01/a-view-of-ye-great-clock-in-st-marks-place-at-venice-canaleti-pinx-jos-baudin-640.jpg "A view of ye great clock in St. Mark's place at Venice / [Can]aleti pinx ; Jos. Baudin, del. ; H. Fletcher [sculpsit].")
![A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea; with ye adjacent countries; explaning [sic] what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland, &c. also ye trade winds, and ye several tracts made by ye galeons and flota from place to place.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1715/01/01/a-map-of-the-west-indies-or-the-islands-of-america-in-the-north-sea-with-ye-640.jpg "A map of the West-Indies or the islands of America in the North Sea; with ye adjacent countries; explaning [sic] what belongs to Spain, England, France, Holland, &c. also ye trade winds, and ye several tracts made by ye galeons and flota from place to place.")
Boston, April 10, 1729. Reverend Sir, The New-England chronology stayi...
Positive Photostat. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 34, Folder 7.
This is the place to affix the stamp
Print shows a skull and crossbones representation of the official stamp required by the Stamp Act of 1765.
A view of the market place in the city of the Havana Vue de la place d...
Print showing a large plaza with water fountain, tradesmen, venders, pedestrians, and soldiers in drill formation, also a coach and four, in the city of Havana.
A view of Cape Rouge or Carouge, nine miles above the City of Quebec o...
Print shows a ship on the Saint Lawrence River with a rowboat of troops disembarking at a point above the city of Québec.
Vuë de la place capitale a Quebeck. Prospect des haupt plazes der unte...
Print shows street view with soldiers marching, and pedestrians in Québec; an idealized view depicting Québec as a typical European city.
![New York, 1775. Sir, The independent company of free citizens, of which you are a member, are to meet this day at [blank] o'clock in the Brick-meeting yard; at which time and place, properly armed and accoutred, you will be pleased to give your](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1775/01/01/new-york-1775-sir-the-independent-company-of-free-citizens-of-which-you-are-640.jpg "New York, 1775. Sir, The independent company of free citizens, of which you are a member, are to meet this day at [blank] o'clock in the Brick-meeting yard; at which time and place, properly armed and accoutred, you will be pleased to give your")
Chamber of supplies, Watertown, June 18, 1775. Gentlemen, The welfare ...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Eph... more
In observance of the Colony-writ to me directed, these are in the name...
Filled in in mss. for Berkshire to the selectment of Jericho and dated at Pittsfield. 29 April 1776 and signed by Israel Dickinson sheriff.; Ford 2015.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congr... more
![Hartford, August 21, 1777 The following is a narrative of part of the transactions at and near Fort Stanwix, since the investiture of that place by the enemy, given in manuscript by Lieutenant-Colonel Willet, of that garrison. [Hartford 1777].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1777/01/01/hartford-august-21-1777-the-following-is-a-narrative-of-part-of-the-transactions-640.jpg "Hartford, August 21, 1777 The following is a narrative of part of the transactions at and near Fort Stanwix, since the investiture of that place by the enemy, given in manuscript by Lieutenant-Colonel Willet, of that garrison. [Hartford 1777].")
In Council. January 19, 1781. Sir. The invasion of our country by the ...
Evans 17410. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 179, Folder 1a.
View of the causeway or landing place, at Pelew
Engraving by I. Landseer after drawing by T. Malton after a sketch by I. Wedgebrough. Illus. in: George Keate, An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the Western Part of the Pacific Ocean, London, 1788. R... more
Nouvelle place de la Bastille
Cartoon shows Louis XVI standing on a pedestal with one foot on the hydra of despotism(?) from which five of seven heads have been severed; on the left, a clergyman offers him a gold coin, and on the right, a S... more
![... An act to authorize the President of the United States in certain cases to alter the place for holding a session of Congress ... [Followed by] An act transferring, for a limited time, the jurisdiction of suits and offences from the District](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1794/01/01/an-act-to-authorize-the-president-of-the-united-states-in-certain-cases-to-640.jpg "... An act to authorize the President of the United States in certain cases to alter the place for holding a session of Congress ... [Followed by] An act transferring, for a limited time, the jurisdiction of suits and offences from the District")
![[Cuts] Newburyport, July 23, 1794. On Saturday last, the following melancholly accident took place in the River Merrimack, viz. A Mr. Chase of Newton, with eight others, were crossing the river in a small boat, they were unfortunately overtaken](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1794/01/01/cuts-newburyport-july-23-1794-on-saturday-last-the-following-melancholly-accident-640.jpg "[Cuts] Newburyport, July 23, 1794. On Saturday last, the following melancholly accident took place in the River Merrimack, viz. A Mr. Chase of Newton, with eight others, were crossing the river in a small boat, they were unfortunately overtaken")
[Cuts] Newburyport, July 23, 1794. On Saturday last, the following mel...
Not in Evans.; Verse.; Imprint 2.; On verso: 10-98-1009.1.44.24; On verso: MC # 09-82-038.154 Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in S... more
![Third Congress of the United States: at the first session. Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia ... [Dec. 2, 1793] An Act to authorize the President ... to alter the Place for holding a Session of Congress .... Approved-April the third 179](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1794/01/01/third-congress-of-the-united-states-at-the-first-session-begun-and-held-at-1-640.jpg "Third Congress of the United States: at the first session. Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia ... [Dec. 2, 1793] An Act to authorize the President ... to alter the Place for holding a Session of Congress .... Approved-April the third 179")
Billy's poll-tax; or, King's place all in an uproar!
Print shows two bare-breasted women in a boudoir, one appears to have been fixing or powdering the hair of the other who sits before a mirror; a box of hair powder has fallen to the floor spilling its contents;... more
![The closet companion: an help to serious persons, in the important duty of self-examination. Intended to be fixed up on the Christian's usual place of retirement, in order to remind him of, as well as to assist him in, the work ... [Signed] G. B](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1798/01/01/the-closet-companion-an-help-to-serious-persons-in-the-important-duty-of-self-640.jpg "The closet companion: an help to serious persons, in the important duty of self-examination. Intended to be fixed up on the Christian's usual place of retirement, in order to remind him of, as well as to assist him in, the work ... [Signed] G. B")
![[Jūichidanme - act eleven of the Chūshingura - discover Kira's hiding place]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/juichidanme-act-eleven-of-the-chushingura-discover-kiras-hiding-place-640.jpg "[Jūichidanme - act eleven of the Chūshingura - discover Kira's hiding place]")
[Jūichidanme - act eleven of the Chūshingura - discover Kira's hiding ...
Print shows a scene during the attack on Kira Yoshinaka's home by the 47 Rōnin; the samurai discover Kira's hiding place.
![Bold Dighton. Being the account of an action fought off Guadaloupe, in 1805, where ninety-five Americans and near three hundred Britons made their escape from the prison at that place [180-?].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/bold-dighton-being-the-account-of-an-action-fought-off-guadaloupe-in-1805-where-640.jpg "Bold Dighton. Being the account of an action fought off Guadaloupe, in 1805, where ninety-five Americans and near three hundred Britons made their escape from the prison at that place [180-?].")
![[Gray's Inn Place]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/grays-inn-place-640.jpg "[Gray's Inn Place]")
![A meeting of the electing committee of the "Philadelphia society for the establishment and support of charity schools will be held at the usual place on evening, the day of 180 at o'clock. Sec'y. To. [Philadelphia, 180-].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/a-meeting-of-the-electing-committee-of-the-philadelphia-society-for-the-establishment-640.jpg "A meeting of the electing committee of the \"Philadelphia society for the establishment and support of charity schools will be held at the usual place on evening, the day of 180 at o'clock. Sec'y. To. [Philadelphia, 180-].")
![[Jubilee Place, Chelsea]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1800/01/01/jubilee-place-chelsea-640.jpg "[Jubilee Place, Chelsea]")
![[Nut-shop, St. James Place]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/2019/09/09/nut-shop-st-james-place-dbdd68-640.jpg "[Nut-shop, St. James Place]")
[Nut-shop, St. James Place]
Kennedy, 291 (first state). Signed with butterfly on plate and in pencil. Coll. marks: Howard Mansfield (Lugt 1342) and H. G. Whittemore (Lugt suppl. 1384a). Title and other information from Beall. American pri... more
![[Cuts of 4 caskets] Horrid murder and suicide A narrative of the most shocking and tragical catastrophes, that ever blackened the catalogue of human events which happened the 6th September, 1801, at a place called Paltz, 14 miles from Poughkeeps](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1801/01/01/cuts-of-4-caskets-horrid-murder-and-suicide-a-narrative-of-the-most-shocking-640.jpg "[Cuts of 4 caskets] Horrid murder and suicide A narrative of the most shocking and tragical catastrophes, that ever blackened the catalogue of human events which happened the 6th September, 1801, at a place called Paltz, 14 miles from Poughkeeps")
Proclamation de la Constitution, place du Marché des Innocens, le 14 s...
Print shows a large crowd hearing the news that the new constitution is proclaimed, substantially reducing the power of the monarchy.
Supplice de Louis XVI, Place de la Révolution, le 21 Janvier 1793; ou ...
Print shows French soldiers, some on horseback, and citizens gathered around the platform where Louis XVI stands before the guillotine on the day of his execution.
![[House ("Tudor Place") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Perspective sketch]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1805/01/01/house-tudor-place-for-thomas-and-martha-custis-peter-1644-31st-street-nw-georgetown-3-640.jpg "[House (\"Tudor Place\") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Perspective sketch]")
![[House ("Tudor Place") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Floor plan and sketched elevation]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1805/01/01/house-tudor-place-for-thomas-and-martha-custis-peter-1644-31st-street-nw-georgetown-640.jpg "[House (\"Tudor Place\") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Floor plan and sketched elevation]")
[House ("Tudor Place") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st S...
Reference copy available in LOT 4249 (R). Conservation control number 8.99.815.14
![[House ("Tudor Place") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Front elevation with sketch]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1805/01/01/house-tudor-place-for-thomas-and-martha-custis-peter-1644-31st-street-nw-georgetown-2-640.jpg "[House (\"Tudor Place\") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Front elevation with sketch]")
![[House ("Tudor Place") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Floor plan with sketches]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1805/01/01/house-tudor-place-for-thomas-and-martha-custis-peter-1644-31st-street-nw-georgetown-1-640.jpg "[House (\"Tudor Place\") for Thomas and Martha Custis Peter, 1644 31st Street, N.W., Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Floor plan with sketches]")
![The minor literary exhibition of the College of Georgetown, D. C. will take place on the 27th of February, at 10 o'clock, A. M. ... [Georgetown] February 27, 1821.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1821/01/01/the-minor-literary-exhibition-of-the-college-of-georgetown-d-c-will-take-place-640.jpg "The minor literary exhibition of the College of Georgetown, D. C. will take place on the 27th of February, at 10 o'clock, A. M. ... [Georgetown] February 27, 1821.")
Vue de la place des boutiques / Cadolle delt. ; lithe. par Deroy.
Print showing a view across a plaza with carriages and pedestrians at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia.
![[Washington Monument looking north on Washington Place in Baltimore, Maryland]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1828/01/01/washington-monument-looking-north-on-washington-place-in-baltimore-maryland-640.jpg "[Washington Monument looking north on Washington Place in Baltimore, Maryland]")
[Washington Monument looking north on Washington Place in Baltimore, M...
Drawing shows view of monument beyond First Unitarian Church, originally First Independent Church of Baltimore, designed by Maximilian Godefroy, completed in 1818.
A new map of South Carolina with its canals, roads & distances from pl...
The earliest general map to show the South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company's line which began in Charleston, S.C. It was completed to Hamburg, S.C., in 1833. Its 136 miles of track were then the longest in... more
General Taylor's letter of condolence to Henry Clay on his recent dist...
Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 155, Folder... more
![Rotundo [i.e. Rotunda] Gardens. Mr. Hampton's grand 77th ascent with his new royal Irish national balloon, Erin-Go-Bragh the first ascent this season, will take place on Easter Monday, 24th April, 1848.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1848/01/01/rotundo-ie-rotunda-gardens-mr-hamptons-grand-77th-ascent-with-his-new-royal-640.jpg "Rotundo [i.e. Rotunda] Gardens. Mr. Hampton's grand 77th ascent with his new royal Irish national balloon, Erin-Go-Bragh the first ascent this season, will take place on Easter Monday, 24th April, 1848.")
Rotundo [i.e. Rotunda] Gardens. Mr. Hampton's grand 77th ascent with h...
Broadside announcing an ascension and parachute jump from the Rotunda Gardens, Dublin, Ireland, by balloonist John Hampton. Includes a picture of his balloon "Erin-Go-Bragh."
The place we hear about
Another grim portrayal of violent goldfield life in California, similar to "Things as They Are" (no. 1849-3) and equally critical of the outgoing Polk administration. Here again mayhem erupts, as prospectors an... more
Wagner & McGuigan's Steam Lithographic Printing Establishment, No. 4 A...
Print shows printing plant, artists and printers at work, printing presses, and symbols of the printing trade and of the United States used to advertise the firm.
![A fair will be held in connection with the anti-slavery meetings of this place, on A large assortment of fancy and useful articles will be offered for sale, the proceeds of which will be given to the anti-slavery cause. [185-?].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1850/01/01/a-fair-will-be-held-in-connection-with-the-anti-slavery-meetings-of-this-place-640.jpg "A fair will be held in connection with the anti-slavery meetings of this place, on A large assortment of fancy and useful articles will be offered for sale, the proceeds of which will be given to the anti-slavery cause. [185-?].")
Cirque Américain - Place du Chateau d'Eau, J.W. Myers, proprietor
Print showing an exterior view of the Place du Chateau d'Eau in Paris, France, with a throng of people in the foreground.
![Union with freemen -- No union with slaveholders. Anti-slavery meetings! Anti-slavery meetings will be held in this place, to commence on [blank] at [blank] in the [blank]. To be addressed by Agents of the Western anti-slavery society. Three mil](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1850/01/01/union-with-freemen-no-union-with-slaveholders-anti-slavery-meetings-anti-slavery-640.jpg "Union with freemen -- No union with slaveholders. Anti-slavery meetings! Anti-slavery meetings will be held in this place, to commence on [blank] at [blank] in the [blank]. To be addressed by Agents of the Western anti-slavery society. Three mil")
![[Column, Place Vendôme] / E. Baldus.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1851/01/01/column-place-vendome-e-baldus-640.jpg "[Column, Place Vendôme] / E. Baldus.")
Royal Gardens, Vauxhall ... this day, Monday, May 5th, a balloon ascen...
Text-only broadside announcing ascensions by Charles Green in his balloon "Royal Nassau" and Hugh Bell, in his "patent locomotive balloon" from the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, London, England, May 1851. Text also... more
Paris. Place du châtelet / E. Baldus.
In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 21. No. 86.
![[Place de la Concorde, Paris, France] / E. Baldus.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1851/01/01/place-de-la-concorde-paris-france-e-baldus-640.jpg "[Place de la Concorde, Paris, France] / E. Baldus.")
[Place de la Concorde, Paris, France] / E. Baldus.
Place de la Concorde, showing fountains, obelisk and buildings.
Mitchell's new traveller's guide through the United States, showing th...
General map of the eastern half of the United States, framed in decorative borders, indicating drainage, state boundaries, major cities and towns, roads, railroads, canals, and distances. [From published bibliography]
![The great prize fight Air: Camptown races. Which took place at Boston, Oct. 12th, 1853. [1853?]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1853/01/01/the-great-prize-fight-air-camptown-races-which-took-place-at-boston-oct-12th-640.jpg "The great prize fight Air: Camptown races. Which took place at Boston, Oct. 12th, 1853. [1853?]")
Place de la Concorde A Paris / / Photographie d'apres nature par Ch. S...
Photograph shows obelisk and fountain in Place de la Concorde with palaces, Rue Royale, and Church of the Madeleine in the background. Title from item. No. 215. Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers o... more
![[French naval expedition to the Indo-Chinese archipelago: Merchants' place at Toumhai]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1856/01/01/french-naval-expedition-to-the-indo-chinese-archipelago-merchants-place-at-640.jpg "[French naval expedition to the Indo-Chinese archipelago: Merchants' place at Toumhai]")
[French naval expedition to the Indo-Chinese archipelago: Merchants' p...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 April 26, p. 340.
![[Gen. Wm. Walker's Exp. in Nicaragua]: Market Place on Grand Plaza, Granada, Nic.](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1856/01/01/gen-wm-walkers-exp-in-nicaragua-market-place-on-grand-plaza-granada-nic-640.jpg "[Gen. Wm. Walker's Exp. in Nicaragua]: Market Place on Grand Plaza, Granada, Nic.")
![[Gen. Wm. Walker's Exp. in Nicaragua]: Market place, Grand Plaza, Granada](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1856/01/01/gen-wm-walkers-exp-in-nicaragua-market-place-grand-plaza-granada-640.jpg "[Gen. Wm. Walker's Exp. in Nicaragua]: Market place, Grand Plaza, Granada")
Landing place. Assouan
Boats harbored in the Aswan area on the Nile River. Title from item. No. 1831. On verso: Assouan. Landing place.
![[Design drawing with text "He that Dwelleth in the Secret Place..." and architecture]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1857/01/01/design-drawing-with-text-he-that-dwelleth-in-the-secret-place-and-architecture-640.jpg "[Design drawing with text \"He that Dwelleth in the Secret Place...\" and architecture]")
![Spencer, Vila & Co. Bankers, No. 13 Congress Street, corner of Exchange place (rear of the traveller building,) Boston, offer for sale the following list of first class securities ... [1858].](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1858/01/01/spencer-vila-and-co-bankers-no-13-congress-street-corner-of-exchange-place-640.jpg "Spencer, Vila & Co. Bankers, No. 13 Congress Street, corner of Exchange place (rear of the traveller building,) Boston, offer for sale the following list of first class securities ... [1858].")
![John Brown riding on his coffin to the place of execution [Charlestown, W. Va.]](https://cdn4.picryl.com/photo/1859/01/01/john-brown-riding-on-his-coffin-to-the-place-of-execution-charlestown-w-va-640.jpg "John Brown riding on his coffin to the place of execution [Charlestown, W. Va.]")